Route 8 reopened in Colebrook

COLEBROOK >> Route 8 northbound in Colebrook, north of Route 20, was closed for more than two hours Friday morning after a tree and wires came down on the roadway following rain and high winds that moved through the area.

Connecticut Light & Power said 54 percent of its Colebrook customers, about 435, were without power around 11 a.m. Power was restored by Friday afternoon. There were other scattered outages around Litchfield County.

The road was closed at 10:56 a.m. and reopened at 12:45 p.m., according to the state Department of Transportation.

CL&P spokesman Frank Poirot said crews were busy responding to downed trees and limbs. He said waves of outages follow intermittent gusts of wind and rain.

The utility, a subsidiary of Northeast Utilities, reported about 7,000 outages at noon Friday. Most were in northwestern and northern Connecticut, and the number was down from earlier in the day.

CL&P serves 1.2 million customers.

The United Illuminating Co., which serves business and residential customers along the shoreline and north of shoreline towns, was reporting only a few outages.